JS>             000  OPEN_FLAGS_NO_LOCALITY       (0x00000000)


 JS> When is No Locality used.

This option is used when you don't know,  or don't have,  a locality
preference.  It is the default.

Note that the kernel does nothing with these flags except pass them on to
the individual file systems;  each file system does whatever they want with
them.  To my knowledge,  FAT and HPFS do not do anything with them.  I
think IBM Lan Server might.


 JS> well as read prefetch (the opposite of a lazy write, if there is such a
 JS> thing?)

Merlin has read-ahead for HPFS,  as well as multiple lazt write threads. I
don't know the exact details,  but when I type "cache",  this is
what I get:


            DiskIdle:     1000 milliseconds
              MaxAge:     5000 milliseconds
          BufferIdle:      500 milliseconds
          Cache size:     1024 kbytes
  3 Lazy write worker(s) are enabled.
  1 Read ahead worker(s) are enabled.


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